Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 01:20:22 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual disk, vhdx, vhd - is it nothing but a dd dump? Message-ID: <f604a7de-43f5-95bc-af14-1bfc66020a51@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <6AC9A1CC-729B-467F-8692-96210FF6F37D@kukulies.org> References: <6AC9A1CC-729B-467F-8692-96210FF6F37D@kukulies.org>
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On 2020-09-20 00:54, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Sorry for being a bit off topic, but since it refers virtualization an FreeBSD has VirtualBox, I’m wondering, > whether a so called vhd or vhdx file, which can be produced with virtualization tools like disk2vhd, might be nothing but a raw dump > of the disk. > > Reason behind: I would like to virtualize an HP notebook (an HP11-e-170eg). Several trials failed (Parallels cloning over network, > Hyper-V, p2v Vcenter Converter). > > Now I thought of at least securing the hard drive once using > > dd if=/dev/sd0 of=dump > > from a booted FreeBSD stick to an external USB3.0 large disk. > > Question, whether the dump obtaind that way, can be used as a virtualization medium. > > — > Christoph https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=virtualbox%20raw%20vdi%20convert https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2012/04/29/virtualbox-convert-raw-image-to-vdi-and-otherwise/ David
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